El tiempo, el otro y la muerte a través de Emmanuel Levinas

Abstract

The article investigates peculiar vision of the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas regarding time in its articulation with death and the other (s). It shows the levinasiano commitment by deformalizing the notion of the time, analyzing the relationships that the author establishes between time and the other, time and death, between passiveness-patience and responsibility, between immemorial past, present and future. Finally, the study focuses on the critical confrontation between Levinas and Heidegger with regard to death and time. He concludes that it is possible to move beyond the Heideggerian position, understanding death from the perspective of the time, and not only time from death. For Levinas, to be temporal means still have time, to defer death or to face it freely in the present of love-mercy, in the responsibility of one to another, and giving sense to time by seeking a more truly human world.